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which tie, and bonds that. try. That the new Albion mot orcab will catch on.
The Press giving and getting another pro-motor turn.
That those who are about to die salutant and not salute.
Of dividends paid by motor manufacturers out of tire discounts.
That the amalgamation of big carriers is by no means an express affair.
That self-starters will be started before long upon several commercial-motor models.
That the basis of that spider's web may prove to have been not so far out after all.
That there was much eye-opening at the Daimler ploughing demonstration last Tuesday.
That the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be asked to allow the petrol rebate to motor ambulances.
That it is hoped members of the C.M.U.A. will not overlook the date and hour of the annual general meeting.
That a tin of petrol would more truthfully illustrate the "Spirit of London" poster issued by the Underground.
That only those motor spirits which contain hydrocarbons of the unsaturated series fail to deposit carbon in engine cylinders.
That several offers of early commercial vehicles have been made to the trustees of "The Motor" Museum of Historical Motorcars.
That the G.P.O. has augmented various motor-mail services lately in consequence of train-service curtailment due to the coal strike.
That, on the occasion of the recent thefts from its Piccadilly premises, the Maudslay Co. did not lose the gold medal which its three-tonner gained in the li.A.C. Commercial Vehicle Trials of 1907.
That the manager of the White Heather Laundry, near Willesden Junction, at whose premises petroleum was found during boring operations to obtain a new water supply, is lamenting the fact that the well was not full of motor spirit. That there is nothing wriggley about the Wrigley worms.
Next to nothing from the engine of Napier's onetonner.
That a cab-rank telephone will shortly be installed. near the Albert Hall.
Severe criticism regarding the reconstruction scheme for the General Motor Cab Co.
That Mr. W. 1. Johnston, district superintendent L.G.O.C., is not nearly so dead as he thinks he is.
That, even with 400 of its trains suspended, one London suburban railway cannot manage to keep time.
That the Gloucester County Council is thinking of building a road bridge over the Severn between Lydney and Sharpness.
That a good many new owners are inquiring about "the show" in May, but that what they have in mind is the C.M.U.A. Parade.
That the "W. and G." cabs are reserved for the use of certain London newspaper interests in the event of further railway service suspension.
From Paris, that coaling facilities at Cherbourg and Le Havre are to be offered to the British Admiralty. [What has this to do with commercial motors ?—En.] That the value placed on superseded chassis by a big London bus company does not cohencide with that of certain would-be purchasers, who are not unused to dealing.
That ex-superintendent Ely, of Leicester Fire Brigade, who was one of the first men to employ motor fire appliances, has passed away after a long period of ill-health.
That it is high time the "Drive near left kerb" plates on pavement lamp-posts in the Hammersmith main road—west of Olympia—were turned round from their present incorrect positions.
That it is better to give steam to the engine of a steam wagon only as the boiler will make it, rather than all the engine will take, as the latter way of driving means poor average speed in the end.
That Birmingham owners have agreed to give land free, in order to further the project for a 100 ft. ring road, and that they are also agreeable to pay the Corporation £2 10s. per yard of frontage upon such road when they sell, let or build.
That one of the strangest special trips for which motorcabs have been employed was that in which two such machines were chartered to carry one or two proof pages of the new George V. Bible from Cambridge to London, in the middle of the night, and that the second cab was only used in ease of a breakdown.
That M. Gemier's ambitious scheme of a peripatetic motor theatre came to an inglorious end last week in an auction sale at Aubervilliers, near Paris, when his eight steam tractors, electric-lighting plant, special coaches, and various material were disposed of to the highest bidders, but that, far from being discouraged, M. Gemier says he will try again next year.